News about The University

Marie Curie grants to two SYM postdocs

Tobias Barthel and Gábor Szabo, postdoc researchers from the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, have won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which they will carry at our department.

Women in Physics Prize 2017 awarded to up and coming astrophysicist Sarah Pearson

Together with the well-deserved KIF prize of 5000 Danish crowns, Christina Nis, Professor MSO at Roskilde University and member of the KiF Prize award committee, delivered these fine words to the Columbia-based Phd…

Jürgen Schukraft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2017

Jürgen Schukraft, one the world’s leading physicists in the study of the Quark Gluon Plasma, has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2017. He is a member of the DISCOVERY (DNRF) center of excellence…

Niels Martin Møller awarded prestigious Sapere Aude grant

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Niels Martin Møller has received a “Sapere Aude Starting Grant (Research Leader)" from the Independent Research Fund of Denmark. The grant is aimed at highly talented younger researchers…

Eugene Polzik receives DKK 10 million for fundamental research and innovation in quantum optics

QUANTOP at the Niels Bohr Institute has attracted DKK 10 million funding from two funding agencies, the John Templeton Foundation (USA) and EUREKA – the European framework targeting cooperation between SMEs and research…

Mogens Høgh Jensen appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

Mogens Høgh Jensen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by HM Queen Margrethe on the 275th anniversary of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, which took place on 13 November 2017.

Leading researcher in evolution to be bestowed with an honorable doctorate

Professor Gonzalo Giribet, researcher of zoology and animal evolution at Harvard University, will receive the honorary doctorate from University of Copenhagen on November 17, after nomination from the Natural History…

The Gates Foundation support health and math project

Postdoc researcher Robyn Stuart, from the Statistics and Probability Theory group at Department of Mathematical Sciences, receives funding for a 15 month health and math project on modeling "care cascades”.

Jesper Grodal elected as Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Professor Jesper Grodal from MATH at University of Copenhagen is honored for his contributions to algebraic topology, representation theory and their interactions - and for service to the profession.

Virtual fieldtrips i undervisningen

Første halvdel af 2017 har SUNDs Centre for Online and Blended Learning undersøgt hvordan virtual reality (VR) kan bruges til at forbedre undervisningen på fakultetets uddannelser. Det typiske argument for brugen af V…

Renowned mathematician to be awarded honorary doctorate

Professor Karen Vogtmann, world-renowned for her research in topology and geometric group theory, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on November 17, upon the recommendation of the…

Outstanding PhD trio receives honours

Mathematician Robin Reuvers was honored for his PhD project on the so-called Bose-gases, when SCIENCE presented this years PhD awards.

Spanish award to QMATH postdoc

The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society will in October award postdoc Angelo Lucia the Vicent Caselles Award for brilliant work of international impact.

Funding for mathematical experiments

Associate Professor Jesper Lund Pedersen and postdoc Alexandra Muñoz have received funding from the VILLUM FOUNDATION to think outside the box. Their projects could lead to radical breakthroughs within mathematics. If…

Statistics professor named Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE 2017

Professor Susanne Ditlevsen at the Department of Mathematical Sciences is so good at making figures and mind-bending statistical calculations interesting and accessible for her students that she has now been awarded…

Research support for biostatistics and L-functions

Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences awards 51 DFF-Research Project Grants to researchers in Denmark to the sum of approximately DKK 159 million. Two of these projects are led by researchers from…

KU researcher with bad climate news won the Danish Research Result of the Year

Gary Shaffer, Professor Emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, and Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen from DTU have made the year’s most important scientific discovery, according to the users of Videnskab.dk.

Improving our student communication

Large ERC grant for Kim Sneppen

An advanced ERC grant for Kim Sneppen of DKK 16.500.000 was awarded for development of new methods and models to explore the diverse and complex world within and between cells, for investigating how diversity emerges an…

Sparreska Prize to Dan Petersen

The Sparreska Prize will be rewarded to Dan Petersen, associate professor at Department for Mathematical Sciences, by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Niels Bohr Institute welcomes 6 new Marie Curie Fellows

From “Quantum Supremacy” to planet-disks interactions, the Niels Bohr Institute opens its doors to ever more scientific excellence, with 6 new Marie Curie Grants for a total of € 1,3 million, so just short of 10 Million…

Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant to QMATH postdoc

Jed Kaniewski, postdoc at QMATH, has won a competitive Marie Curie-Fellowship, which he will carry at our department during the next two years.

Carlsberg supports Danish Mars research

Morten Bo Madsen, head of the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of 2.5 million kroner from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project: A Field Trip 250 million km from home – Salary for Essentia…

Gerard ’t Hooft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016

The Dutch professor of theoretical physics, Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016 for his groundbreaking work on black holes, quantum gravity and quantum field…